News

April 2026
  • Meeting with new Secretary of State Audrey Henry
  • Meeting with researchers from Protagoras, responsible for the Public Communication workstream of the research on the cleanliness issue around Gare du Midi and Gare du Nord (see also meeting with BSI – March 2026)
  • Meeting with City-to-Ocean founder Pieter Elsen to get to know each other’s proposals and ways of working, and discuss potential collaboration ideas
March 2026
  • Meeting with researchers from the Brussels Studies Institute (BSI), who recently started a 10 month study on the cleanliness issue around Gare du Midi and Gare du Nord
  • Work session with Schaerbeek (Service Propreté & cabinet alderwoman Lorenzino) & Net Brussel to advance on our education project
  • Clean-up action aka Brussel (Pou)belle team building @ Cureghem (together with Respect Cureghem)
  • Launch of the mixed deliberative committee on cleanliness. Thank you to all 760 citizens interested to participate, and to 45 citizens who are randomly selected to represent all of us. GOOD LUCK!
February 2026
  • FINALLY! A new government, with an ambituous agenda on cleanliness. Go, Mme Audrey Henry!
  • Working meeting with Net Brussel (Jos Raymenants & team) to advance our project on education.
  • Meeting with alderman Simon de Beer (Vorst)
January 2026
December 2025
  • We met with Secretary of State Ans Persoons (Vooruit)
  • We attended one of many protests organized by Respect Brussels against the unacceptable impasse in Brussels politics
  • We had a face-to-face team meeting, welcoming new members and making plans for the year to come
  • We had a working session with the “comité d’accompagnement” of our citizen proposal. Per the current plan, the mixed commission on cleanliness would start in March 2026 and the conclusions would be presented in June 2026.
  • We attended the Christmas Concert at the Royal Palace – a royal appreciation for all our efforts.
November 2025
  • Roundtable discussion with His Majesty the King, in Schaerbeek
  • The Brussels Parliament voted in favour of our citizen proposal and decided to organize a mixed committee on public cleanliness starting Q1 2026.
  • We met MR (MP Aurélie Czekalski) and OpenVLD (MP Imane Belguenani) at regional level to discuss the need for structural solutions to cleanliness and present our position paper.
  • We met with Eric Vandezande & Pierre Hollander of “Les 40 Comités”, a collective regrouping more than 50 “comités de quartiers” across the Regio. With their focus on security, poverty & cleanliness, we are clearly allies in our efforts for a cleaner Brussels!
October 2025
  • We met with the cabinet of His Majesty the King at the Belgian Royal Palace to talk about the issue of cleanliness in Brussels and present our position paper.
  • We co-organized a debate on cleanliness together with Volt Europe. Thanks to our interesting speakers from Ixelles (échevin Geoffroy Kensier) and Net Brussel (Jos Raymenants) for the enrichting exchange!
  • We launched our website! Thank you for visiting us 🙂
September 2025
  • We reached the milestone of over 1,000 signatures for our citizen proposal.
  • We continued collecting signatures until October 15.
  • We co-organised an action in front of Brussels Parliament with our partners Respect Brussels and G1000 to draw attention to citizen participation and the fading democracy in our city.
  • We participated in a clean-up action in Molenbeek.
  • We met with CityTools, who shared findings from their study on cleanliness challenges in several neighbourhoods commissioned by Brussels Propreté.
  • We met with the mayor of Saint-Gilles, Jean Spinette (PS), to discuss collaboration on the rising waste problem.
July 2025
  • We met with 1030 Schaerbeek to discuss local issues.
  • We met with N-VA at the regional level (MP Mathias Vanden Borre)
  • We attended the July 11 networking event at the Brussels Parliament to make our message heard by representatives.
  • We met with Volt Brussels to learn about new political movements and their perspectives on cleanliness and local governance.
  • We talked to dozens of citizens in Brussels parks and cafés about cleanliness as part of our signature campaign.
  • We launched our new branded vests to make it easier to spot us in the streets.
  • We reached more than 900 signatures on our citizen proposal and called for one last push before October 15.
June 2025
  • We met with the cabinet of Brussels Minister Elke Van den Brandt (Groen), with local echevin Deborah Lorenzino (Défi) in Schaerbeek, and with local politicians from Molenbeek, including Mohammed El Bouzidi (PTB/PVDA).
  • We reached over 780 signatures for our citizen proposal.
  • We compiled an inventory of local coalition agreements related to waste management to follow up on.
  • We launched new visuals with the support of Let’s Make a Mark BXL and Leurquin Eric, and distributed them across the city.
  • We attended the protest organised by Respect Brussels to wake up Brussels politics.
May 2025
  • We organised a clean-up action in the Alhambra quarter in collaboration with the City of Brussels to raise awareness about waste issues.
  • We met with Frédéric De Gucht from Open VLD Brussels to present our ideas for solving the trash crisis in Brussels.
  • We met with Martin Casier from PS Bruxellois to discuss his party’s stance on the issue and explore potential actions.
  • We reached 560 signatures on our citizen proposal.
April 2025
  • We met with outgoing Minister Alain Maron (Ecolo) to understand past years’ policies and what blocks reform.
  • We reached 487 signatures for our citizen proposal.
  • We started revamping our visuals with Let’s Make a Mark BXL.
  • We held a general team meeting to plan our next actions.